welcome to mount
richmore I want everyone to know this is
real gr yeah it's real this is real it's
good and it's thick and delicious all
these Liberals are going you need a
greenh house I'm like what do you call
this is is aoc's house as green as mine
probably not how dare you you all know
John Rich John rich is a multiplatinum
award-winning country music legend Rich
who ironically was born dirt poor in
Amarillo Texas rocketed to fame as a
country music hit writer and and
performer based in Nashville John Rich
has delivered more than just platinum
records to the Music City Nashville is a
city that likes to party and the writer
of Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy owns the
perfect place to Pony up John Rich's
redneck Riviera bar is a Cornerstone in
downtown with his own barbecue sauce and
American whiskey to boot in 2011 John
Rich's star power and business savvy
caught the attention of a popular TV
host at the time a man named Donald
Trump Rich would go on to win Donald
Trump's Celebrity Apprentice season and
remain the only man on Earth who
successfully got Trump to wear a cowboy
hat while Trump may have his name on
skyscrapers in downtown Manhattan John
Rich has conquered his own Mountain just
west of downtown Nashville built on the
land where the Battle of Nashville took
place since mount richmore mount
richmore is a 19,000 ft 3story 20 room
mansion with an elevator and a roof deck
overlooking a custom Gibson
guitar-shaped pool with a guitar
headstock hot tub John Rich personally
designed every aspect of the vertical
concrete and steel Mansion right down to
the guitar toilet seats the current day
value of the property is between $8 to10
million and the moment you pull through
the front gate you can see why welcome
to the house that music built today on
based
cribs we are here at John Rich's house
in the heart of Nashville we're going to
see what this the largest house in
Nashville's
lake with B John Ridge let's going on
John is this like a a house is this like
a yeah it's a house this is like the
biggest like any house you've been in
before this is biggest house I've ever
it's a fun house come on in Welcome to
Music City brother after meeting John at
the front door he welcomed us into the
entryway of his massive Mansion this is
the most patriotic room in America check
this out from time to time I've had
people walk up holding dog tags they go
well this was my brother or this was my
son or whatever and I go wow I'm sorry
you lost them so they go well is a big
time fan of Big and Rich or big time fan
of you and you should have them and I go
wo whoo whoo uh-uh they go oh no they
would be so excited knowing this was in
your house I go okay I mean most people
don't have a gigantic Memorial to the
American Service members in the opening
in the forer the first thing you see
house yes yeah so then you get on the
elevator and you basically go through
this house it's like a giant honky ton
toy
box
this is just a collection of places I've
been people I've worked with I'll give
you some of the N Glenn Campbell Tom
Petty Merl Haggard Quincy Jones Larry
Gatlin there's the president United
States wearing a cowboy hat never seen
it before I think Trump looks good in a
cowboy hat what do you think this
elevator took us up to the roof of the
home where John showed us what it's like
from the very top of Mount richmore so
right now you're about almost 90 ft up
looking right at downtown Nashville
you're up here on the roof I call it the
world's biggest deer stand cuz you could
probably hit a white tail in three
different counties from up here but
what's cool about this spot is during
the Civil War the uh The South was
downtown in Nashville in the north came
down the Cumberland River and started
cannonballing them and hitting them with
everything they had ran them out of
downtown they ran right through this
Valley which is now all Vanderbilt
that's all Vanderbilt they ran right
through here and right up onto this hill
when I was building this house and we
were Excavating we're finding musket
balls and saber handles and bridles and
bits and all kinds of stuff it's just
always astonishing to me to think that
was not really that long ago is it hard
to get grass to grow on a rooftop like
this like I want everyone to know this
is real gr real WR this is
real thick and delicious you bring a
mower up here absolutely either that or
we let the goats loose but normally you
don't let the goats loose that often but
sometimes we'll just turn the goats
loose and let them eat it for real no
okay so you gone green joh see that's
what I mean all these Liberals are going
you need a green house I'm like what do
you call this is is aoc's house as green
as mine probably not no way probably
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not we're on the third floor right now
you're on the third floor right now yeah
most people don't have a concert hall in
their house but look around we'll bring
in uh bring in the soldiers sometimes
when they're uh when they're not working
and yeah we'll load in the band get a
bartender say all right boys have a good
time I'm going to I'm going to play a
little uh Merl Haggard you know and
we'll get up and just start ripping and
hang up 3 or four hours my wife and I a
family goal every year is to go past a
million bucks a year that we raise for
charities in this room so folds of Honor
St Jude Children's Research Hospital our
local food bank you know various things
like that so if you look at a wall like
this it looks like drywall right looks
like sh Rock knock your knuckles on that
saw concrete so the whole house is
vertically poured concrete this has us
to have to have of a story so the the
Disco saddle was a housewarming present
from a buddy of mine down in Texas and
and uh that actually hung in the old
Honky Tonk in Texas called Gillies which
is a world famous honky ton went out of
business back I think in the late 80s
early 90s back to rhinestone s yeah so
when we have your birthday party here we
hit that with the lights and we we make
we make it turn and we turn the room
around cuz it ain't a party to you got a
disco
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s so what says welcome to Nashville
Benny more than a guitar-shaped swimming
pool oh
again this is all a custom job oh yeah
you designed this oh yeah you worked on
this and designed every square inch of
this place did we did yeah me and my
wife it was actually my wife's idea to
have a guitar pull you think think that
would have been my idea this a Gibson
that's that's shaped after a Gibson
Hummingbird yeah it's my favorite guitar
so yeah when the pool guy came and goes
what do you want it to look like and I
reached up on the wall and I said I want
it to look like this is that a Jacuzzi
yeah that's the hot tub the headstock is
the hot tub the headstock is the hot tub
of course it is come on man
that's
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it a lot of people have sat at this bar
um I've had everybody from you name it I
mean you saw the pictures in the
elevator it's a lot of people that have
sat right here and had a good time
rednick Rivera whiskey that's my that's
my brand and I wanted to come with
something that was premium but you could
afford it where's the American blanded
and nobody had anything called that
there was no bottle that said that so
rednick Rivera whiskey was born it's now
in 10 over 10,000 stores throughout the
US cheers celebrate your freedom Benny
celebrate your freedom cheers after
enjoying some delicious redneck Riviera
American whiskey John took us to his VIP
room one of his favorite places in the
house and I think you'll see why this is
the VIP room so this is where you should
have been the whole time VIP guns and
guitars obviously up on this wall but
these are all uh guitars I've used
throughout my career that I retired
eventually because out on the road they
they start to you know start to wear out
a little bit that Gibson Hummingbird
with all the signatures on it I wrote
about 650 songs on that one guitar so
much Johnny Cash you love Johnny Cash
love Johnny Cash that that picture there
was a Johnny Cash was a pencil Sketcher
so that's actually a pencil sketch
Johnny Cash did that they made 350 PRS
of it and that's it and he called that
that uh bird out of prison was the title
of that picture there do you think you
would be in country music were not for
Johnny Cas his music without a doubt uh
got down into my DNA early made me want
to do
it so this is a this is a lyric
collection blank sheets of paper and
pencils are the most powerful things in
the world I like to reach out to the
artist that wrote some of my favorite
songs and say hey would you just scratch
the lyrics down man I'm going to frame
it and hang it in the house so it's all
kinds of song God Bless USA's up there
Kid Rock did cowboy for me Living on a
Prayer Bon Joy this is where I write a
lot of songs yeah so if I'm going to sit
down and write I'll come back here cuz
it's kind of in the back and it's kind
of quiet and I look up at these great
songs and go well that's what you're
shooting at think hard sniper rifle come
on that's a Barrett 50 cal so that that
is a rifle that really transformed War
Rony Barrett back in the early 80s uh he
was a photographer well one day he got
hired to take pictures of a u Coast
Guard boat and the Coast Guard boat had
a 50 cal on it he's looking at his
pictures and he goes man there's got to
be a better way to build a 50 cal where
one guy could carry it cuz at that point
it took at least two men to move a 50
cal around so he's not a gunsmith he's
not a machinist he's none of those
things start sketching out this gun and
he goes I believe that would work so he
takes out a second mortgage on his house
goes totally into debt and after several
months of working they build the
prototype to the Barrett 50 cal and the
US military said we want thousands of
these and he CU I made it in my garage
I'm not sure I'm supposed to do that
they go well we'll help you build a
plant we'll help you figure this whole
thing out and now that rifle uh the
longest kill shot in the history of war
is on that rifle that rifle pushed the
Taliban back a mile I mean it is a Reach
Out And Touch Somebody uh kind of weapon
and the greatest living American gun
maker is Ronnie Barrett all right so
where are we going now John you want to
go see the car let's go yeah let's
go watch your Bandit run smoking a
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bandit what a beauty now you can tell I
drive this car like it's got
fingerprints on it and it's got dust in
the floor but it gets driven so I drive
it quite a bit is this the original this
is not the one from the movie but it it
is a factory original uh smoke in the
abandoned Edition Trans Am it's not been
modified it's about as close as you're
going to get to the you know the
original original car I like or stuff I
don't like to soup them up just do what
the car does you know this particular
car they only made
1,2 of this car so they didn't make it
very low production car most of these
cars have either been wrecked or
completely worn out or they've been
totally modified so I'm not aware of
another car from that 11002 that has not
been modified I looked for a long time
for this car uh found it down in Georgia
original owner had it and he was ready
to let it go and I've had it about 15
years now so it's it's part part of the
family so it's one of one so if somebody
goes to Nashville somebody books
somebody's watching this books their
vacation Nashville you may see John Rich
rolling around in an original trans
listen just book your trip to Nashville
give me a call I'll pick you up in the
smoking de Bandit car take you down to
Redneck Rivier pour you a shot and
everything will be
great speaking of One of a Kind God
bless you thanks man thank you John
Rich's story is your classic only in
America story come from nothing hard
work Blood Sweat and Tears a lot of grit
and a little bit of luck sprinkled in
there and you can make it to the top
very top of Mount richmore sitting there
with a guitar and your own bottle of
whiskey what a life what a country God
Bless America thank you for joining us
on based cribs see you next
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